As to comments from KL, relating to workers not getting a seat on the bus on their way to work due to the pensioners, as the concessionary bus pass for the elderly does not allow travel until after 9.30am and from what I have seen on the Leam Lane route there are more buses than passengers at times. It sounds more like a case of sour grapes.

IN response to KL, Leam Lane Estate...Evening Chronicle Wednesday August 1. Bus passes are awarded to pensioners to get us out of the house during the day.

Not only to see this beautiful region of ours and visit friends and relatives who we would not otherwise be able to get to. By doing this we spend money in the shops, thereby boosting the local economy.

The fact we pensioners can use our bus passes means we can get out of the house and ride the buses instead of being stuck in the house all day.

MAY I through your newspaper give some sound advice to those starting their working life, and that advice is this, don’t join a company pension fund, don’t buy your own home, and don’t save for your retirement.

For if you do, you will sadly be penalised beyond your wildest imagination when you retire. No my friends, spend your money as you earn it, enjoy holidays abroad, social evenings out, new cars and all the other luxuries in life, then when you retire you will be on a par with all those who learned long ago that working for a living and saving for retirement or investing in a pension coupled with buying your own home and contributing to society as a whole is the idiot’s way of life.

JM, a disillusioned idiot

Blair’s a war criminal

SO Tony Blair appeared on BBC TV to discuss publication of his memoirs, something bound to encroach on the imminent leadership contest.

Blair is reported to have described Ed Miliband as a potential distaser for traditional Labour voters.

Like Thatcher before him, he is trying to be a backseat driver of his former party, which is definitely a retrograde step for the Labour Party.

The British public regard Blair as a corrupt politician, who caused an unjust war by the use of lies. As a war criminal he is responsible for thousands of deaths of innocent, men, women and children.

Why does he not adopt a low profile because everything he touches leads to problems for other people.